Thanks for your help.
I thought it had something to do with that path indeed. In the mean time the problem is solved. I must say that i was only able to get it up and running by creating a symlink like this:

Thanks for your offer to use your rpm. No doubt that it is a great solution, but i can't use it right now.
The FuzzyOCR anti-image SPAM solution is for an existing Debian Lenny server with ISPConfig 2.2.32.

I have te impression that the amount of image spam is decreasing now.

I am new to FuzzyOCR, but do you know if it makes any difference when Caps Lock is off or on, while adding new words to the file FuzzyOcr.words ?

yeah, I just tried that too. will change it from init.pre to v310.pre after work and check again. BUT for me spamassassin --lint does work, end without an error and the sample tests catch the spam so it seems to be working :-(

the only concern I have is that after amavis-new stop and amavis-new debug-sa the process seems to 'hang' when attempting to create the Berkeley DB and jsut hangs but when I start it again, amavis-new start all is good, no errors and just works...

I guess your problem is that spamassassin doesn't seem to be in the default path, so try a which spamassassin and run it from taht location? aka /your/path/to/sa --lint ?